Ye Cheng

Not long after, Ye Cheng and the others learned from Cai Jinzhi's letter that Qian Xingliang had returned to the village, but for some reason, he fell seriously ill after going back and spent a lot of money. If you come out to work again, you have to rest in the village for a while.

After reading the letter, Old Man Wu sighed again. Qian Xingliang is a pretty good person. He never expected to encounter such a thing. Now the two children who have been favored by him are sitting with their heads bowed and not talking. He couldn't really understand Qian Xingliang's pain now.

Old man Wu doesn't care about this truth. Some people are good, and you can't forget them even after many years. Children may not fully understand them now, but when they grow up, they will always know.

Ye Cheng and Lu Mingyuan lived in old man Wu's house for more than a year.At the beginning they called Old Man Wu Grandpa Wu, but one day suddenly, Old Man Wu said, don’t call him Grandpa Wu.

So Ye Cheng obediently called grandpa, old man Wu took [-] cents from the ticket box, and asked him to buy popsicles at the entrance of the alley, and then he glanced at Lu Mingyuan again, Lu Mingyuan was immediately blessed, and also called grandpa, so He also got twenty cents.

There was no business in the store, so the two children squatted at the door and licked popsicles. At that time, popsicles were cheap, and you could buy sweet water for [-] cents, and milk for [-] cents.Old man Wu sat in the room with his head crossed and his legs crossed, humming a little tune, feeling very comfortable.

When Ye Cheng grew up to be eight years old, he became a governor. He begged in the city, saw and heard a lot, and saw a lot of faces. After a long time, he couldn't help but start to think of some things. For example, the matter of Qian Xingliang, such as the matter of his future study, such as why others always look down on him.

If you think too much, you will mature faster than your peers. Gao Jinhua in the vegetable market always said that Ye Cheng is too sensible, too thoughtful, and will be tired in the future.But it is true that she feels sorry for him. Although she said she would not get married a year ago and would bring Ye Cheng and the others home to raise him, she met a suitable man at the end of that year, and the two got along quite well. Yes, the wedding was arranged in the beginning of spring.

After Gao Jinhua got married, she still helped her parents sell cooked food in the vegetable market. When Ye Cheng passed by, she always asked if he had eaten, and always wanted to invite him to eat noodles or cooked food.

In contrast, Lu Mingyuan still looked like a carefree child. When old man Wu was busy with business, he was detained to work in the store and he was not allowed to go out with Ye Cheng. That boy felt unhappy up.

It happened that a few guests came in a hurry. The guests urged Old Man Wu, and Old Man Wu urged Lu Mingyuan. The old man Wu's voice was too loud, and when he yelled like a quarrel, Lu Mingyuan was not bad: "Don't keep urging me, urge me, It won't be too long to remind!" The elders would yell at each other like this from time to time, and the guests thought it was funny.

If you want to say where Lu Mingyuan has grown up this year, it's his mouth. Being teased by those aunts in the vegetable market, his mouth has become a lot sharper.

What Lu Mingyuan hates the most is that girl named Huanhuan. I don’t know if that little girl has heard too many fairy tales and mistook Ye Cheng for a beggar prince or something. It's endless, every time Lu Mingyuan sees Ye Cheng with that girl, he gets annoyed, and when he doesn't see it, he gets even more annoyed.

Huanhuan's father always said that he wanted to buy a big house for Ye Cheng to take his daughter, hum, they all said he was joking, but no matter how Lu Mingyuan sounded it sounded like the truth.He felt that when he grew up, he had to quickly buy a big house for Ye Cheng, so as not to be taken over by others.

In fact, what Lu Mingyuan didn't know was that the reason why old man Wu often detained him to work in the store was not because he was really too busy, but because he wanted Lu Mingyuan to distance himself from Ye Cheng and get closer to him.Old man Wu also saw Ye Cheng's situation, so what if Lu Mingyuan followed him, that child was hard for him to support himself, so would it be appropriate to bring back a baby who was one year younger than himself?

He wanted to keep Lu Mingyuan, anyway, he was an old man, and he wasn't afraid to suffer a little more. If he could confess this child, he might feel more relieved when he died.But this kid Lu Mingyuan doesn't appreciate it, he just pretends to be Ye Cheng alone, and if he separates them a little bit, his temper will become very angry.

Now that autumn is coming, old man Wu is still undecided, so he should discuss it with the two children first.When Lu Mingyuan heard that old man Wu said that he wanted to stay and not let him go to the village with Ye Cheng, he immediately became anxious. Anyway, he wanted to go back with Ye Cheng anyway.Ye Cheng also meant the same thing, saying that he wanted to take Lu Mingyuan back to the village.

Old man Wu had no choice, he wanted to help the two children, but since the two had made up their minds, he would not do this thankless thing.Besides, in one's life, it is still difficult to say how to live a good life and how to live a bad life, so old man Wu didn't force it, and let these two children do it.

When the time came to the end of August, old man Wu opened up for Ye Cheng and the others. He first bought some clothes for the two children, and then bought schoolbags and stationery for Ye Cheng.I also asked someone to buy a shoe repair machine from other places. At that time, a good shoe repair machine cost nearly 200 yuan, and Wu’s half a month’s income was gone.

In addition to the shoe repair machine, there are also tools for repairing shoes, awls, shoe repair knives, and consumables such as tire threads, nylon threads, cotton threads, glue, etc. I also bought a little of each.Let the two of them go to the local store to find the same brand as soon as they go back. He has used these things for decades and knows which brand works best.

Old man Wu told them not to beg for food after they went back. If they lost face, they would repair their shoes. If they couldn't make it through, they would come to him.

Knowing that Ye Cheng and the others were leaving, Gao Jinhua was very reluctant. She took a few old clothes from his brother's house that her nephews couldn't wear. It was for Ye Cheng and the others to take them back.It turned out that after hearing that old man Wu asked them to bring so many things back by themselves, he stopped giving them. He asked old man Wu to write Cai Jinzhi's address to her, saying that she would pack more and mail it to them another day.

Compared with other consumptions in those days, buying clothes was indeed relatively expensive, so everyone dressed relatively plainly, and many families would use old clothes worn by adults to make clothes and trousers for children. Everyone was quite used to it. No one would think it shameful to wear other people's old clothes.After 2000, the concept is somewhat different.

On the day of going out, old man Wu took Ye Cheng and Lu Mingyuan to the train station early in the morning, asked around in the waiting room, found a few passengers who were going to Ye Cheng and his hometown H City, and said that the two children would go with them. They went back, school started now, and they sent their children back to study.

Those few passengers saw that Old Man Wu didn't look like a bad person. The two children were well dressed, and indeed they called Old Man Wu Grandpa. , in addition to carrying a handbag, Ye Cheng also carried a schoolbag on his back, which looked very well-behaved. He looked at old man Wu's ID card and wrote down the ID number, and then he agreed.

While waiting for the car, old man Wu kept explaining to Ye Cheng and Lu Mingyuan what to do when they go back. He said that boys should be bold and not be afraid of things, let alone lie and deceive others because they are afraid of things. people look down on.He also said that no matter how much hardship you suffer in the future, you must remember the good of others, don't always think of things as bad, let alone those bad thoughts that hurt others, otherwise you will regret it when you get old, and even look down on yourself.

This old man Wu usually doesn't talk very much. He didn't know what happened that time, but suddenly he said so much. Ye Cheng and Lu Mingyuan also listened carefully. This is the first time since they can remember, someone taught them how to be a human being. .

When the ticket checking started, Ye Cheng and Lu Mingyuan left old man Wu and followed strangers into the ticket gate. In their childhood, they would always deal with all kinds of strangers. Most of them were friendly, but there were also some Many people always look at them with disdain.

Now Ye Cheng is very neatly dressed, he doesn't hold a broken bowl in his hand, and he is carrying a schoolbag, but he always has an illusion, as if this clean and tidy self is not the real self, the one who wears the torn clothes The one who begs everywhere with a broken bowl is the real Ye Cheng.There was an inexplicable guilt in his heart, as if he had deceived the friendly people in front of him, and he was also a little worried about what kind of attitude these people would have if they knew that he used to be a dirty and smelly beggar.

Ye Cheng was so inexplicably uneasy, even though the other party obviously didn't care about his background at all, he still felt nervous that his identity would be exposed at any time.At this time, the only way to make him feel at ease is by being close to Lu Mingyuan, because this person is just like himself, a little beggar, who was once dirty and smelly, and was once looked down upon by others.

The train was neither fast nor slow. When it arrived in City H at [-]:[-] in the afternoon, Ye Cheng first took a car to his own county, and then took another bus to the town.It was already past six o'clock when we arrived in town, and we had to carry our luggage and walk at night without catching the last tractor that passed through their village.

Ye Cheng took Lu Mingyuan to a noodle shop in the town and ate a bowl of shredded pork noodles alone. The fast food on the train was too expensive, so they ate a few eggs that old man Wu asked to bring for lunch, and they transferred trains in the city and county. I didn't even think about looking for food. When they arrived in the town, the two children were starving. The pork shredded noodles in the town cost one yuan a bowl, and there were many noodles and pork shreds.

After eating the noodles, Ye Cheng thought about it and went to the grocery store to buy a flashlight and two batteries. The mountain road at night is not easy to walk. Although both of them are in good health, they are carrying luggage at the moment. Stop, for some reason, when we got to the village, it was already late at night.The two of them didn't bother Cai Jinzhi and the others, and went directly into the yard of Ye Cheng's house. The dogs in the village seemed to have heard something, barked for a while, and then stopped.

Cai Jinzhi knew that Ye Cheng would be back soon, so he made some plans for the yard. After they entered the house, they threw their luggage on the ground, climbed into bed and buried their heads in sleep.